Jul 2nd, 2009
by Joshua Lynch.
Seattle University didn’t go far to find a new men’s basketball coach, and in turn, he didn’t leave the family to find an assistant.
Men’s basketball coach Cameron Dollar, who was an assistant at the University of Washington, has hired his dad to be an assistant coach.
Donald Dollar, who was an assistant coach the past two years at the University of West Georgia, has been coaching for 46 years, mostly high school basketball in Georgia. He has more than 660 career wins.
“Because he is my father, I even at times take for granted how good of a coach he has been for a long, long time,” wrote Dollar on his blog. ”It only took one day on the court watching him teach to quickly bring me back. Seattle U, we are truly getting a special treat.”
Yesterday, Athletic Director Bill Hogan announced that he fired women’s basketball coach Dan Kriley. Kriley has been the Redhawks’ coach since 2004 with an overall record of 77-59.
A national search has already started for a new women’s coach, Hogan said.
Posted in: News, Sports, Summer 2009.
Tagged: Athletics · basketball · Bill Hogan · Cameron Dollar · coaching · Donald Dollar · Joshua Lynch · Redhawks · Seattle University
Jun 23rd, 2009
by Angelo Carosio.
Flaming Lips' frontman Wayne Coyne is known for his crazy stage antics.
Lips fans, rejoice! The incredible stoner-psyc-alt-rock band just added a string of U.S. amphitheater dates to their upcoming tour, and it includes a stop at Redmond’s scenic Marymoor Park.
Frontman Wayne Coyne and the rest of his “fearless freaks” will be stopping by on Aug. 21, and the show is certain to be a spectacle. The Lips are known for their crazy stage antics, including but not limited to: gigantic plastic balls with Coyne inside, confetti cannons and ridiculous amounts of balloons.
The band also recently announced the title of their upcoming follow-up to 2005’s “At War With The Mystics”: “Embryonic,” supposedly a double album. Coyne has been talking about the new release and is giving fans a chance to preview the songs before the album comes out.
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Posted in: Music, News.
Tagged: angelo carosio · digital music · redmond · seattle · the flaming lips · tour
Jun 18th, 2009
by Joshua Lynch.
Cameron Dollar has signed a contract with Nike for the men's basketball team's gear. Photo by Braden VanDragt, The Spectator.
Redhawk men’s basketball players will still be sporting the swoosh when they walk on to the court this season.
Coach Cameron Dollar announced last week that he signed a three-year contract with Nike to provide the team with uniforms and gear.
“As we promote our program it very important to have everything we connect with be first class,” Dollar wrote on his blog, camerondollar.com. “Obviously, Nike fits that bill.”
Though Seattle University is a sweat-free campus—meaning it doesn’t purchase from companies that use sweatshops—the Athletics Department hasn’t joined the rest of the campus. Nike is not a certified sweat-free company, though watchdogs have noted improvement in recent years.
“We decided to go with Nike a long time ago because it’s a brand with a good reputation,” sports information director Jason Behenna told The Spectator last year.
In 2004, a university committee started the initiative to have a sweat-free campus. Many departments on campus, including the bookstore, have pledged to only purchase or sell sweat-free merchandise.
Posted in: News, Sports, Summer 2009.
Tagged: Athletics · Cameron Dollar · contract · Joshua Lynch · men's basketball · Nike · Redhawks · Seattle University · sweat-free · sweatshops
Jun 15th, 2009
by Joshua Lynch.
Graduates wait in line for pictures after receiving their diplomas. Photo by Joshua Lynch, The Spectator.
Seattle University held its undergraduate commencement ceremony at KeyArena Sunday, awarding diplomas to 1,133 students in the class of 2009.
At least 1,009 students confirmed they would attend commencement, with around 14,000 RSVPs from family and friends, according to numbers given to The Spectator at the end of May.
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Posted in: News, Photography, Summer 2009.
Tagged: college · commencement · graduation · Joshua Lynch · KeyArena · Photography · Seattle University
Jun 13th, 2009
by Joshua Lynch.
A sign posted in the Student Health Center announces its new $5 co-pay policy.
Due to
universitywide budget cuts, Seattle University’s Student Health Center will begin charging patients a $5 co-pay for appointments with its providers July 1.
Previously, most visits to the health center were free to students, with minimal charges for testing and vaccinations.
A brief post on the SHC’s Web site says the charge will not be in place for all visits.
“This co-pay does not apply to students needing vaccinations and TB skin tests,” it reads.
A health center employee told The Spectator Friday that the type of visits that will be charged is yet to be determined by the staff.
Seattle U cut 5 percent from its base budget for fiscal year 2010 after a proposal was passed Feb. 19 by university trustees.
Unlike a 5 percent cut made in November to the fiscal year 2009 budget, the approved plan takes funds from both the operating and salary budgets because salary expenditures account for the majority-around 70 percent-of Seattle U’s costs. The 5 percent deduction made in November, representing around $2 million, will not be returned to the 2010 budget in the current proposal, Ron Smith, vice president for finance and business affairs, told The Spectator in March.
The base cut will save the university an additional $3 million, bringing the total budget cuts to $5.4 million, Smith said.
Posted in: News, Summer 2009.
Tagged: budget cuts · co-pay · Joshua Lynch · Seattle University · Student Health Center
Jun 13th, 2009
by Joshua Lynch.
2008-2009 ASSU President Kai Smith in the office with Emmanuelle Escandar, ASSU's vice president for finance, who sponsored a resolution to draw on reserves to fund student clubs. Photo by Garrett Mukai, The Spectator
The Associated Students of Seattle University, facing more and more clubs relying on its funding but no increase in its budget from the university, passed a resolution to draw on its reserve funds in April.
The student government body voted to draw $2,000 from its reserves fund. It had already drawn more than $2,000 from “personal, representative” funds for clubs, according to a release.
The resolution, passed April 8 but for which The Spectator received a release about last week, said the clubs and organizations ASSU supports have grown in number from 91 in 2005 to more than 152 in 2008. The resolution also notes that university funding to its appropriations budget has not increased in the same time period.
“Funding for student clubs from the university administration has been stagnant for the past three years,” reads the resolution.
ASSU’s appropriations budget is $65,000 a year, and as of the time of the resolution, it had already distributed all of those funds.
Look for more student organization budget reporting as The Spectator examines how university-wide budget cuts will impact students.
Posted in: News, Politics, Summer 2009.
Tagged: appropriations · assu · budget · Joshua Lynch · reserve fund · Seattle University · student clubs
Jun 4th, 2009
by Amanda Rinkel.
Twenty years ago on June 4th, a massacre occurred in the heart of
Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, after a month and a half of pro-democracy protests by students. The protests brought out over a million people to Beijing, and the final culmination was a violent crackdown resulting in untold number of deaths, arrests (many who are still imprisoned) and a stifling of the democratic movement in China for decades–it has never recovered. The true effects of the crackdown are unknown because of the inherent secrecy of the Chinese government.
Tank Man at Tiananmen Square. Courtesy of mandiberg @ flickr
What is known is there were people who stood up. In one of the most iconic and inspiring images to come out of the Tiananmen massacre is the picture of a lone man staring down, and stopping a line of tanks, in its tracks. Continue reading →
Posted in: News.
Tagged: Amanda Rinkel · China · Hong Kong · human rights · memory · tank man · Tiananmen Square · vigil
Jun 2nd, 2009
by Jake Wild.
As time goes on – after years of scientific advancement and decades in growing technology, after millennia of philosophy development and challenges to human morality, measuring our strides by years and our years by never-ending trips around the same sun, and as the earth and water shift and shape, eroding structures, destroying life, creating it anew again, and as the ancient, fleeting pieces of human history wash ashore and into the hands of whatever futuristic force has taken precedence of time, surpassing all limited and present consciousness to the lengths that our minds, as they are now, could never possibly conceive of – as that time goes, only one small piece of our societal existence will forever imprint itself into the history books of a distant, eternal future; only that one small piece of information concerning the existence of our species will lay in the unbounded, clouded halls of endless time-
”Humans;” it shall be noted, “they liked sports.” Continue reading →
Posted in: Counterpoint-Point.
Tagged: Adam Toth loves Nicolas Cage · Sports · Sporty-Sport-Sports
